Stories from Roads & Kingdoms
Hot Dates in the Saudi DesertThe world’s second-largest date festival shifts into high gear.
Each week, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed... Read more

2016: Golfer Arnold Palmer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf dies shortly after his 87th birthday while awaiting heart surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. [ + -... Read more

2016: Golfer Arnold Palmer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf dies shortly after his 87th birthday while awaiting heart surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. [ + -... Read more

continue to feud even after Trump beat his Democratic opponent in the presidential election in November. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
It’s been 317 days since the presidential election, but even still, President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton... Read more

since the presidential election, but even still, President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton haven’t stopped their bickering.
Once friends — Clinton was even a guest at Trump’s third wedding in 2005 — the two New Yorkers haven’t left their... Read more

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he would like to see the country’s debts being paid during the time of this generation and not leaving it for the next since that is how life ought to be.
Speaking at the inauguration of the International... Read more

Trump Has No Good Reason to Scrap the Iran DealThe reasons his administration has put forth are dishonest and will make us less secure.
President Trump seems determined to wiggle out of the Iran nuclear deal, but all the rationales that he and his... Read more

FILE -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands behind a European flag as she waits for the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, July 5, 2017. Xi is in Germany to open an Panda enclosure in Berlin... Read more

Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked the White House for phone records pertaining to the initial statement that was issued regarding a meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russians, according to a new report.
Politico cited people... Read more

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New York Post

Mueller wants phone records about Don Jr.’s Russia statementSpecial counsel Robert Mueller has asked for phone records related to the state

Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked for phone records related to the statement about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer that was crafted aboard Air Force One, according to a new report.
That statement was put together as... Read more

NEW YORK — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump’s United Nations address: “that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others.”
“I think it’s a... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I... Read more

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I think it's a very... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I... Read more

NEW YORK (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's United Nations address: "that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others."
"I... Read more

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tells The Associated Press that he heard a positive note in President Donald Trump’s United Nations address: “that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others.” (Sept. 19)
NEW YORK (AP) — Russian... Read more

Editor’s note: Times journalists are annotating this speech. If you see a passage highlighted in yellow, you can click on it to see what we have to say about it. You can also highlight passages and leave your own comments.
Read Trump’s full remarks,... Read more

President Donald Trump’s debut speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly:
Mr. Secretary-General, Mr. President, world leaders and distinguished delegates, welcome to New York. It is a profound honor to stand here in my home city, as a... Read more

President Donald Trump's debut speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly:
Mr. Secretary-General, Mr. President, world leaders and distinguished delegates, welcome to New York. It is a profound honor to stand here in my home city, as a... Read more

did not disappoint expectations that his first appearance at the UN would be a fiery, memorable affair, and while laying out his view for a "nationalist" basis to US foreign policy, focusing on state sovereignty as the framework for the "great... Read more

Here's a ranking you don't see all that often: the 20 U.S. publicly traded corporations with the biggest income tax bills.
It amounts to a pretty fair who's who of corporate America's giants, with some interesting absences. Of the top 10 companies... Read more

If investors have guessed correctly, the Federal Reserve will start reducing its $4.5 trillion portfolio of government securities after its two-day meeting finishes on Wednesday.
But for a meeting that could herald the reversal of quantitative... Read more

NEW YORK CITY (USA TODAY) – President Trump began his first United Nations trip on Monday by calling on the international body to improve the way it does business, and to have it pay more of the costs for joint projects like peacekeeping.
"In recent... Read more

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The Manteca Bulletin

Trump turnaround puts new tax-cut writing on the wallFinancial markets and most media pundits are missing the new writing on the wal

Financial markets and most media pundits are missing the new writing on the wall. For a variety of reasons surrounding shrewd moves by President Trump, the chances for significant tax cuts in the next 10 weeks have risen sharply.
Since the... Read more

In history, defining moments like 9/11 that can be identified as markers of change are rare. More often, there are trend lines of slow-moving geopolitical changes which come together at a particular moment in time resulting in an inflexion point.... Read more

The U.S. has struggled to resume its financial prominence after the financial crisis, caught up in overcompensating regulations passed after the financial crisis and in the politically inspired resolutions of those regulations that are now... Read more

Regulators’ fragmented approach to mitigating risk since the banking crisis can prevent them from seeing the adverse consequences a new rule may have on the financial system as a whole.
This regulatory myopia may explain the Financial Stability... Read more

rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom.
Activists hold lighted candles during a protest in Mumbai... Read more

rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom.
Activists hold lighted candles during a protest in Mumbai... Read more

rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom.
Activists hold lighted candles during a protest in Mumbai... Read more

Rather than having any success in implementing his economic program that might have boosted investor confidence and caused capital to return home, President Trump’s many political blunders have kept capital flowing to the emerging market... Read more

Go ahead, European Union. Keep throwing your weight around at the expense of your 28 member countries. Make them do things they don’t want to do, impose penalties on any who challenge you, and call Brexit an anomaly. On Wednesday, the president of... Read more

Go ahead, European Union. Keep throwing your weight around at the expense of your 28 member countries. Make them do things they don’t want to do, impose penalties on any who challenge you, and call Brexit an anomaly. On Wednesday, the president of... Read more

rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom.
It all started in 2013, first as a pilot project, months... Read more

rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom.
It all started in 2013, first as a pilot project, months... Read more

rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom.
It all started in 2013, first as a pilot project, months... Read more

The Senate will take up the massive Pentagon policy bill this week, providing a stage for high-profile debate on simmering national security issues ranging from transgender troops to the growing North Korea nuclear threat.
Senators have already... Read more

Antifa demonstrators hurled smoke and projectiles at police officers during rallies in downtown Portland on Sunday, injuring at least two, according to police.
The Rally and March Against White Nationalism, which was organized by the Portland Stands... Read more

President Trump and Turkish President Recep Erdoğan stressed their "common commitment" to regional stability in the Middle East during a phone call on Saturday, according to the White House.
The brief readout of the call released by the White House... Read more

of the world’s largest economy. The guru type hedge fund media outlets were filled with grim forecasts of a spiraling 2008 type crisis. These hedge fund managers sure sounded smart, and they all definitely have a lot more money than me, so I... Read more

victory last year after bets that the Chinese yuan would weaken paid off handsomely – particularly if they were supercharged by leverage. Hopefully, for their sake, yuan decided to lock in those gains early this year. Because since January,... Read more

diplomacy only to be caught napping with the OBOR, where we overplayed our hand in boycotting it, and still played nice at G 20 and now the disengagement ahead of BRICS, despite the daily bashing from a China government mouthpiece? The relationship... Read more

Eleven months after the 2016 presidential vote, top election officials in the states say they still can’t determine the level of Russian hacking in their electoral systems in part because they lack the security clearances to discuss the issue with... Read more